Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"When it comes to freedom,
we are but prisoners of our own desires."

~ Eric Schaub  

"This world is the prison of the believers
and the paradise of the unbelievers."

~ Islamic Proverb  

"Everything is backwards;
everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge,
governments destroy freedom,
the major media destroy information,
and religions destroy spirituality."

~ Michael Ellner  

"But when no risk is taken there is no freedom.
It is thus that, in an industrial society,
the plethora of laws made for our personal safety
convert the land into a nursery, and
policemen hired to protect us
become selfserving busybodies."

~ Alan Watts  

"Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits;
it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men."

~ E. B. White  

"Search for the truth
is the noblest occupation of man;
its publication is a duty."

~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael  

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;
and wise are they who obey its signals.
If it does not always tell us what to do,
it always cautions us what not to do."

~ Lydia M. Child  

"The Right of all members of society to form
their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others
must be regarded as an essential principle
of a democratically organized society."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
  who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
  intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

~ Galileo Galilei  

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.  

"The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy."

~ George Washington  

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven."

~ Pierre Corneille